Francesco Quinn dies at 48; actor, son of movie legend

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Quinn collapsed on the street where he lived in Malibu while walking home from a nearby store with one of his sons, said Lt. James Royal of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Malibu/Lost Hills station. He was pronounced dead at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center. Quinn's agent, Arlene Thornton, said in a statement that the cause had not been determined but that he was believed to have suffered a heart attack.

One of a reported 13 children of Anthony Quinn, the Academy Award-winning actor remembered for his title role in "Zorba the Greek," Francesco Daniele Quinn was born in Rome in 1963. His mother, Iolanda Addolori, was an Italian wardrobe assistant who met his father on the set of the film "Barabbas" and later married him. The couple had two more children.

Francesco Quinn's ancestry — Anthony was of Mexican-Irish descent — allowed him to portray a range of characters.

On television, he had recurring roles in prime time series, including "JAG,""24" and "The Shield," and from 1999 to 2001, he played writer Tomas del Cerro on the soap opera "The Young and the Restless." He also played the young Santiago in a TV movie version of Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" that starred his father as the title character.

Quinn's survivors include his wife, Valentina Castellani-Quinn, and three children. He was previously married to Julie McCann.

Hatfield was a devout Christian who opposed prayer in the public schools and managed to negotiate common ground among the environmentalists, loggers, anti-abortion activists, death penalty foes, business owners, farmers and antiwar protesters who were his constituents.

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